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Gramps 4.0 Wiki Manual - Main Window
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Elements of Gramps main window.
- 1 Main Window
- 2 Switching Navigator modes
- 3 Switching Categories
- 4 Switching Views
- 5 Column Editor
- 6 Filters
- 7 Sorting columns
- 8 When something goes wrong
Main Window
When you open a Family Tree database (either existing or new), the main Gramps window is displayed (Fig. 3.1):
The main Gramps window contains the following elements:
Window Title Bar
- Window Title Bar shows the name of selected Family Tree, Gramps application name and buttons to minimize, maximize and close Gramps. The window can also be dragged from the Title Bar.
- Menubar: The menubar (Main Menu) is located at the very top of the window (right below the window title) and provides access to all the features of Gramps.
- Toolbar: The toolbar is located right below the menubar. It gives you access to the most frequently used functions of Gramps. You can set options that control how it appears by going to the menu Edit ->Preferences.
The Toolbar can be hidden or revealed by the option in menu View ->Toolbar.
- Navigator: The navigator is located at the left of the window and allows selection of the different categories. See Categories of the Navigator
The Navigator can be hidden or revealed by the options in menu View ->Navigator.
Display area
- Display area: The area in the center of the Gramps window is the display area. What it displays depends on the currently selected View. We will discuss Views in detail below.
Status Bar and Progress Bar
- Status Bar and Progress Bar: These are located at the very bottom of the Gramps window.
- The Progress Bar is located in the lower left corner of the Gramps window. It displays the progress of time consuming operations, such as opening and saving large Family Tree databases, importing and exporting to other formats, generating web sites, etc. When you are not doing these types of operations, the Progress Bar is not shown.
- The Status Bar is located to the right of the Progress Bar. It displays information about current Gramps activity and contextual information about the selected items.
Bottombar and Sidebar
- Bottombar: The bottombar is located below the display area.
- Sidebar: The sidebar is located to the right of the display area.
The Bottombar and the Sidebar allow gramplets and filters to be displayed alongside a view.
The Sidebar and Bottombar can be individually hidden or revealed by options in menu View. If the Sidebar is not displayed, then the Search bar is displayed instead.
If there is more than one navigator mode installed, you can choose the navigator mode with the drop down.
The navigator modes are "Category", "Drop-Down" and "Expander"
Note that in the Plugin Manager, Navigator modes are called Sidebar plugins, but this is inconsistent,because the View->Sidebar menu item removes the right-hand filter/gramplet sidebar, not the left-hand category sidebar.
Switching Categories
Gramps comes with number of different categories as standard. The built-in categories are described in categories. You can download addon 'Gramps View's via the Preferences menu. If the view is a new or updated view for an existing category, then the view is added to that category. However, if the view is a view for a new category, then the new category is added to the navigator.
The way you change the currently displayed category depends on the navigator mode. Normally (for most navigator modes) you can select the category you want by clicking one of the navigator icons.
Alternatively you can use the keyboard shortcuts CTRL+P and CTRL+N go to the previous or next category respectively. If you have turned off the navigator this will be the only way to change categories (unless you turn the navigator on again).
Switching Views
A category can contain different ways of presenting the data, called a View. If there are several views, you can switch between the views. The way you change between the views depends on the viewing mode. In some viewing modes, there is an icon button on the toolbar to switch to a different view. You can also switch via the menu View, or by pressing CTRL+<number>, where <number> is the view you want in this category.
Column Editor
Column Editor
The Column Editor is available in all Views and works the same way in each.
By default, the View List, displays several columns of information about the repective category. You can add or remove columns to and from the display by calling up the Column Editor dialog from the menu View -> Configure View... or click on toolbar Configure View... button and then checking or unchecking the boxes listed. You can also change the position of a column in People View by clicking and dragging it to a new position in the Editor (drag and drop). Once you have made the changes you want, click OK to exit the Editor and see your changes in the View.
Genealogical databases can contain information on many people, families, places, and objects. It is therefore possible for a View to contain a long list of data that is difficult to work with. Gramps gives you two different means for controlling this condition by allowing you to filter a list to a more manageable size.
These methods are Search and Filtering.
A search will search the text displayed in list, whereas filters display people whose data match the criteria of the filter.
Search is a simple but fast method of searching the columns displayed on the screen. When the sidebar is not displayed, the Search bar is displayed. Typing the characters into the Search bar and clicking the Find button will display only lines that match the text.
Alternatively, you can enable a filter in either the bottombar or the sidebar. When the filter sidebar is displayed, the Search bar is not displayed. The Filter allows you to interactively build a set of filter rules that can be applied to the display. The filter is applied based on the rules and the data, not on the screen display. Filters of the displayed category can also be constructed by clicking on the corresponding 'editor' button in the Edit menu.
Further details of how filters work is given here
Searching vs. Filtering
Searching only searches for exact text matches. If the date displayed is "Jan 1, 2000", a search of "1/1/2000" will fail, but a filter of "1/1/2000" will match.
When Gramps opens a database, no filtering is in effect. In People View, for example, all people in the database are listed by default.
Sorting columns
Clicking once sorts in ascending order, clicking again sorts in descending order. The Column Editor dialog can be used to add, remove and rearrange the displayed columns.
When something goes wrong
Sometimes something goes wrong, either because you have asked to do something that Gramps doesn't know how to do, or because something has happened that the developers of Gramps did not anticipate, or because there is a mistake in the coding of Gramps.
This section explains what to do when something unexpected happens.
Sometimes all the errors do not appear on the screen. If something unexpected happens, you may need to see all the error messages
An alert is a dialog that appears when Gramps needs to give you an important message about an error condition or warn you about potentially hazardous situations or consequences.
Most alerts are self explanatory, and the same type of alerts that you might get with any application. These are not discussed further here.
However, some alerts require more complicated actions, so they are described below.
This dialogue appears if you try to open a Family Tree created with a previous version of Gramps with a newer version of Gramps. If you still have the older version of Gramps available, then you should:
- cancel this dialogue,
- open the Family Tree with the previous version of Gramps,
- export your family tree in Gramps XML database export format or Gramps package export format (see Export into Gramps formats),
- open the Family Tree in the new version of Gramps and click Upgrade now in this dialogue
As explained in the dialogue, the Family Tree was probably created with an old version of the Berkeley database program. This is not quite the same thing as an old version of the Gramps program, because the version of the Gramps program and the version of the Berkeley database are independent. However, the effect is somewhat the same. As suggested in the dialogue, if you have the old version of Gramps and its support software, then you should:
- cancel this dialogue,
- open the Family Tree with the previous version of Gramps,
- export your family tree in Gramps XML database export format or Gramps package export format (see Export into Gramps formats),
- start the new version of Gramps,
- open the 'Manage Family Tree' dialogue,
- click on new and create a new Family Tree,
- load the new Family Tree
- Import the Gramps XML or Gramps package.
Alternatively, it may be possible to use the recovery tools. See 'obtain the bsddb recovery tools' under Recover corrupted family tree
This dialogue appears when a problem is detected with the underlying database that supports Family Trees.
- close the dialogue,
- click on the Family Tree Manager,
- select the Family Tree you were trying to open,
- the Repair button should be available; click on it,
- once the Family Tree has been repaired it should be possible to open it in the normal way.
If this does not work, try 'obtain the bsddb recovery tools' under Recover corrupted family tree
Carry out suggested action.
Carry out suggested action.
Carry out suggested action.
If Gramps detects a minor error, or wishes to notify you about an occurrence within the program, then Gramps may display a warning button, as shown below. This button is only displayed for 180 seconds, so if you see it you should immediately click on it if you want to see the messages.
If you click the warning button, then a dialogue box appears showing the last 20 messages received. More details
Some of the warnings that may appear are described below:
Locale warnings
Sometimes there is a problem with the language you have chosen.
If you have installed Gramps using your platform's standard installation method (Package manager/AIO installer/Application package) and are using your platform's built-in mechanism (System Setting/Control Panel/System Preferences) to choose the language/sort order/formats you are running in, then these errors should not occur, and may mean there is a problem in Gramps.
However, if you have set the language/sort order/formats manually by setting the 'environment' see languages, particularly if you are running Gramps from the command line, then there may be a problem with what you have typed in. The message (only part of which is shown below) should help you to understand where the error is.
- "Date parser for '%s' not available, using default"
- "Date displayer for '%s' not available, using default"
- "Family relationship translator not available for language '%s'. Using 'english' instead."
- 'Unable to determine your Locale, using English'
- "Localization library libintl not on %PATH%, localization will be incomplete"
- "No translations for %s were found, setting localization to U.S. English"
- "Unable to create collator: %s"
- "No language provided, using US English"
- "No usable languages found in list, using US English"
- "None of the requested languages (%s) were available, using %s instead"
Module not loaded warnings
The Gramps application contains many different 'modules'. Some of these modules are required for Gramps to run at all; some are 'strongly recommend', and some are optional.
If you have installed Gramps using your platform's standard installation method (Package manager/AIO installer/Application package) then the builder of that package will have decided which modules are present. He must include all the required modules, because otherwise Gramps will not run, but he can choose which of the recommended and optional packages he includes. Consult the documentation for your package ('Ha Ha Only Kidding') to determine which modules are included.
If you try to do something that needs a module that is not included, then you will get a warning like the ones below (only the first part of the message is included). What you can do about it depends on your platform:
Linux You should be able to install the package using your distribution's standard Package Manager or the GUI interface to the Package Manager. However, in some cases you will need to build the module from source.
MS Windows and Mac OS X The MS Windows AIO installer and the Max OS X Application bundle come with certain modules built in. It is not possible for the normal user to add further modules. Therefore, if you find a module that you particularly feel should be included you should post on the Gramps mailing list (probably the devel list) explaining why you feel its omission is a mistake.
- "WARNING: PIL module not loaded. "
- "ICU not loaded because %s. Localization will be impaired. "
- "OsmGpsMap module not loaded. "
- "GExiv2 module not loaded. "
- "Webkit module not loaded. "
- "PIL (Python Imaging Library) not loaded. "
- "GtkSpell not loaded. "
Configuration warnings
Sometimes it is worth just deleting the old configuration files. TBD instructions on how to do this.
- "Importing old key file 'keys.ini'..."
- "Done importing old key file 'keys.ini'"
- "Can't find filter %s in the defined custom filters"
- "Number of arguments does not match number of " +
- "Value '%(val)s' not found for option '%(opt)s'"
- "Unable to open recent file %s because %s",
- "WARNING: ignoring old key '%s'"
- "WARNING: ignoring key with wrong type "
- "Failed to parse doc options"
- "Skipped a line in the addon listing: "
- "Failed to load gramplets from %s because %s"
Other warnings
More serious problems cause an error dialogue to appear which will describe the actions you should take. tbd. give example of the program error dialogue. Also explain what to do if Gramps suddenly quits, or if Gramps just won't start.
This dialogue appears whenever something has happened in the Gramps application that the programmers did not expect.
Have a look at How to create a good bug report. If you think you know how the Gramps developers might reproduce the bug, then by all means click on the 'Report' button. This will take you to the 'Report a bug' dialogue, and you can then follow the instructions.
Seeing all the error messages
Sometimes, not all the information needed to understand what has gone wrong will appear on the screen. For example, if you start Gramps with an invalid language setting (and some missing components) then the message that appears in the Warning dialogue is:
However, the full set of warning messages is:
(process:10929): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. 2013-03-13 18:49:04.376: WARNING: __init__.py: line 69: Date parser for 'xx_XX.UTF-8' not available, using default 2013-03-13 18:49:04.547: WARNING: __init__.py: line 85: Date displayer for 'xx_XX.UTF-8' not available, using default 2013-03-13 18:49:05.949: WARNING: spell.py: line 74: Spelling checker is not installed 2013-03-13 18:49:14.023: WARNING: gramplet.gpr.py: line 400: WARNING: GExiv2 module not loaded. Image metadata functionality will not be available.
Sometimes Gramps just doesn't start and nothing appears on the screen, or Gramps suddenly quits so you don't see anything on the screen. In all these cases you may need to do something special to see all the errors.
You can start Gramps from the Command Line, as described in the note here. You will then see all the diagnostic information on the terminal.
MS Windows
Mac OS X
You can look at the messages shown by the Console application, and select Gramps.
For example, one of the early alpha releases of Gramps 4.0.0 just would not start and displayed nothing on the screen. However by opening the Console application, and typing Gramps in the filter at the top right hand corner some diagnostic information appeared. (Actually we typed "gramps[" because there were some other messages that were not relevant, but it wouldn't matter if they were included as well).
By shift clicking to select all the relevant messages and copying them we get:
01/03/2013 00:08:02 [0x0-0x88088].org.gramps-project.gramps[1867] 2939: ERROR: importer.py: line 51: Could not find any typelib for Gtk 01/03/2013 00:08:05 [0x0-0x88088].org.gramps-project.gramps[1867] Gtk typelib not installed. Install Gnome Introspection, and pygobject version 3.3.2 or later. 01/03/2013 00:08:05 [0x0-0x88088].org.gramps-project.gramps[1867] Gramps will terminate now.
In this particular case, this was enough to help the developer discover the problem.
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Academic Policy Details
Any student who has withdrawn from William Woods University for a semester or more may apply for readmission by contacting the Registrar's office.
Successful applicants for readmission who were on academic probation when they withdrew will be readmitted on probation. This will be a conditional acceptance. The student must achieve a semester grade point average of at least 2.00 in order to remain the next semester.
Students who are readmitted will follow all academic requirements in effect at the time of re-admission.
These policies apply to the Semester Program/On Campus students only. Graduate College Students will need to consult the Graduate College Bulletin.

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What is a domestic ferret?
The domestic or "pet" ferret is a member of the weasel family and a descendant of the European Polecat. Some other members of the weasel family are minks, otters, and the endangered Black-Footed Ferret.
Domestic ferrets have been domesticated for thousands of years and are not wild animals. Once considered working animals, they were (and still are in the UK and some other countries) used for ridding barns of rodents and for flushing rabbits from their dens (ferreting). In the United States they are lovable house pets.


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Rules (of the road) are made to be brokenPosted on
The email below recently generated a lot of discussion on the Milwaukee Bikes to Work listserv I manage:To my fellow bike commuter this morning at the top of St. Mary's Hill…southbound on Terrace at around 8:40, Greetings! I love seeing you out there with your bike, helment, riding clothes and backpack with your gear for the office. It's great, what a lovely morning. But did you have to race through the stop sign past motorists at the other corners of the intersection who had already stopped and were waiting their turn? Did you have to fly past me as I was stopping and engaging in appropriate hand signals that give the motorists the security and peace of mind that I am not about to cut in front of them but instead am going to abide by traffic rules and wait my turn? Did you have to let the motorists go on their way this morning shaking their heads and saying "bike commuters are selfish and unpredictable. ..they're just not safe." I think the answer to all those is no, you didn't have to. You could slow down and behave like a reasonable member of this community of bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians who are sharing the roads of Milwaukee. Next time you ride I hope you will.
What a great way to express that everyone should obey the laws. The whole "slow bicycle movement" which is part and parcel part of the Cyclechic movement, leaves room for people riding bikes to fully embrace the laws and stop at stop signs and especially red lights. What's the hurry?
I frequently hear this rant at work: "Somebody needs to do something about those scofflaw bicycle riders! They all just blow through red lights and stop signs, ride on the sidewalk and cut me off. They are going to get themselves killed. It infuriates me when they ride up close beside me, balance there in their tight shorts or skinny jeans and prevent me from turing right when I had my signal on, and then they run the red light."
I usually begin with my standard response: "I agree, the world would be a nicer and safer place if everyone obeyed all the traffic laws, bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists too." That is usually enough to quiet the complainer because I agree that bicycles need to obey the laws, but occasionally I get rebuked and told that people riding bikes "NEVER" stop and they are the real problem, not motorists, they always stop for red lights.
Well, since about a third of my work day involves responding to complaints about speeding cars or cars failing to yield to pedestrians, I know that is simply untrue. When we get complaints about speeding, we do a radar speed study and traffic count. The data typically shows a bell curve of speed over volume centered with the median a few miles per hour above the posted speed limit. That means a little more than 50% of people driving cars disobey the speed limit. Everbody to the right of the 25mph mark in the graph below is breaking the law.
But when it comes to yielding to pedestrians in a crosswalk, the number of law breakers is even higher. Even with the bright yellow in-street signs that say "State Law Yield to Pedestrians'" our compliance studies show 95% to 60% of drivers are breaking the law.
In my experience, about 50% of people break the laws they can get away with. That means about 50% of people speed when driving cars; 50% of pedestrians walk when it says don't walk; and 50% of people on bikes blow stops or red lights. That is my belief based on statistics as well as observation at intersections.
I went to the intersection of Fairy Chasm and Lake Drive in Bayside to watch cars and bikes at the contentious all-way stop there. This is an extremely popular bike route and after many complaints, the Village of Bayside posted "Bikes Also" undter their stop signs. (Note this is not allowed in the MUTCD). Watching and counting for about an hour, I found that 70% of the cars failed to make a complete stop, some never even slowed down. I found that 70% of the people on bikes failed to stop, and some never even slowed down. Now that is greater than my 50% rule of thumb, but I think it is because this is probably an unwarranted all-way stop. I am willing to bet it was put in because of complaints, not because the right-of-way issues warranted it. Motorists and cyclists alike are less likely to obey unwarranted stop signs than they are warranted ones.
What constitutes a warranted stop? Well the bible of traffic engineers, the Federal Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, allows for engineering judgement but has a number of conditions from number of approaches, approach speed, sight distance, crash history and differences in traffic volume to determine when to put in stop signs. It also clearly states: YIELD or STOP signs should not be used for speed control.
Too often though traffic engineers are overruled by elected officials and stop signs are put in after complaints about speeding. All these unwarranted stop signs in neighborhoods across the country have bred contempt for the rules of the road. When I learned to drive a few decades ago, most intersections on local residential streets did not have any stop control or yield sign. These uncontrolled intersections were deemed safe by traffic engineers because only a few hundred cars a day went through them. People were expected to slow down, look and drive carefully. The rules of right of way from the uniform vehicle code were to be followed and everyone would get along fine. But now most intersections have some manner of control, whether it is a yield or a stop sign.
So, bottom line is that people are people, whether a person is on a bike, in a car or walking, a significant percentage will break those laws they can get away with that add convenience to their trip. It shortens a car trip to speed. It shortens a bike trip to run red lights or stop signs. It shortens a walking trip if you don't wait for the walk light. People who ride bikes are no better or worse than people who drive cars in this arena.
That said, there are a couple big differences. First, most traffic controls are designed to accomodate cars, not bikes. Signals are timed for cars and bikes often end up hitting red after red. Stop signs are installed because cars speed or crash. Because bicycles are often ignored in traffic engineering, it is understandable that people on bikes may ignore traffic controls like stop signs.
Second, when people in cars break laws, they are more likely to kill or hurt an innocent person. A person speeding just 5mph is much more likely to kill someone in a crash than if they were going the speed limit. A person who rides their bike through a red light is most likely to be the victim.
But I want to get back to that well written email that started this train of thought. I think we can encourage people who ride bikes to set a higher standard and obey the laws. We already want to encourage more people to ride and one way to do that is to set a shining example as happy, healthy, safe and law abiding people.
In keeping with that well written email, lets all slow down, wait for the red light and smile more. I think we will get more out of it than the good will of motorists. I think we will enjoy our rides more as well.


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In today's office, work happens everywhere: in project rooms, in meeting and learning spaces, in impromptu collaborations where two or three people put their heads together to solve a problem or share information.
Huddle multi-purpose tables let you use the same space for a variety of purposes and make change happen fast. Set up several in a conference room for new employee training at 10:00; reconfigure them for a presentation at noon. Pull one up to a desk for a quick work session with a colleague. Push two against the wall to stage a paper-intensive projects.
A wide selection of 16 laminate finishes, 10 base colors, and 3 edge detail options makes Huddle compatible with any work environment.
Office workers bring a whole new set of tools to today's workplace - the laptops, mobile devices, and peripherals that have become everyday necessities. With accessories designed to welcome today's technology to the table, ever-adaptable Huddle multipurpose tables bring even greater flexibility to the workplace.


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A serene home has been created in a renovated mill. The stone structure, with its neutral palette and wood elements, evoke a timeless feel, while the mix of vintage and classic furnishings add style and comfort. What a warm and elegant place to call home.
30 April 2012
27 April 2012
Fab Frock Friday: Charlize Theron in Dior
For this week's edition of FFF, we have Charlize Theron wearing a pale pink assymetrical gown by Christian Dior, on the red carpet for the 2012 Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
She looks radiant as ever in this pale hue. There is something alluringly unexpected about the silhouette of this gown, and the soft pink shade keeps the look very subtle and elegant. I always love the designs from the house of Dior, and this dress is no exception.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
26 April 2012
Wedding Wednesday: Claire Pettibone Fall 2012
Happy Wedding Wednesday!
I know I'm a little late in posting this, but I figure it is still Wednesday in much of the world, so it's all right.
I love the romantic, delicate lace gowns in this Fall 2012 bridal collection by Claire Pettibone.
These gowns bring to mind lounging ladies in old paintings... the sort of beauties which inspired countless love poems....
I love the romantic, delicate lace gowns in this Fall 2012 bridal collection by Claire Pettibone.
These gowns bring to mind lounging ladies in old paintings... the sort of beauties which inspired countless love poems....
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24 April 2012
A room with a view...
How about building a simple shed, adding a glass-enclosed bedroom, in the woods, overlooking a beautiful lake? That is precisely what Avanto Architects and Linda Bergroth designed, for Kekkilä Garden in Finland.
I'd love to spend the night in this lovely "garden shed", wouldn't you? Imagine the peaceful feeling of being surrounded by trees and water, and seeing stars overhead at night. It would be amazing!
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20 April 2012
Fab Frock Friday: The Cloud Dress by Oscar de la Renta
A gauzy confection, known as The Cloud Dress, designed by Oscar de la Renta for Fall 2012, as shown in a pre-runway show fitting, modeled by Arizona Muse...
For your Fab Frock Friday pleasure.
Have a beautiful weekend, everyone!
(all images found here)
19 April 2012
grey day
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18 April 2012
Wedding Wednesday: Paloma Blanca Spring 2012 Collection
Romantic silhouettes define the Spring 2012 bridal collection by Paloma Blanca. I just love the jeweled belts, shirred bodices, and lace details of these gowns. Don't you?
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Brooke Shields, who played the mother of Miley Cyrus' character on "Hannah Montana," says the pop star seemed "desperate" on stage at the VMAs show in New York.
Cyrus, 20, set tongues wagging when she appeared scantily clad while singing two songs -- her hit "We Can't Stop" and a duet with Robin Thicke on his single "Blurred Lines" -- at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night.
Cyrus was seen grinding against Thicke in a suggestive manner and making vulgar gestures with a foam finger throughout the performances.
Zap2it.com said Shields talked about Cyrus' sexually charged display as she served as guest co-host of the "Today" show Monday morning.
"I was Hannah Montana's mother. I don't approve," Shields joked, adding: "Where did I go wrong? I'm her dead mother. Maybe that's the problem."
Shields then assumed a more serious tone.
"I just sort of want to know who's advising her, and why it's necessary," Shields said of Cyrus' image change from Disney darling to bad girl.
"I mean the whole finger thing, and the hand, and ... Robin probably at that point was going, 'I don't think this is a good idea.' ... I feel like it's a bit desperate. Are you trying to be Gaga? But Gaga is ... she's got a genius behind all of it, that's not just display," said Shields, an actress and former child model. "It's not necessary. It's uncomfortable. And the tongue out, I think it's just a little desperate ... trying so, so hard. ... [Miley] can sing beautifully. And I feel like if she let's that lead, rather than her bottom lead ... ."


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CAST Presents: Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors
Cambridge American Stage Tour will be performing Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors
Date: September 25, 2019 - September 25, 2019
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Cleary Family Auditorium, Kearney Hall
Sponsored by the English Department and Visual and Performing Arts Minor
Mishaps, mistaken identities, and a lot of laughs. Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors has it all. Don't miss this fun presentation of one of The Bard's earliest plays, brought to the stage by the Cambridge University American Stage Tour.
Tickets are free for Fisher students, staff, and faculty with ID, and $5 for the general public.


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The Grand Theft Auto series has generated a great deal of controversy since the series first game, Grand Theft Auto 1, was released in 1997.
Grand Theft Auto 1 was released in the United Kingdom in 1997, with publicist Max Clifford planting numerous sensational stories in tabloid newspapers in order to help boost sales of the game.[1]
Grand Theft Auto III was the beginning of the series increasing popularity. The game also proved controversial, with many in the media citing the ability to carjack vehicles, having implied sex with a prostitute and the ability to kill prostitutes to steal her money.[2] Whilst the player has the option to do these acts, there is no requirement to do so in the game.
The game was banned in Australia shortly after its release, with a censored version released later on.[3] One of the key reasons for the games ban was that Rockstar Games failed to submit the game to the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC). The highest rating for the OFLC was MA15+, leading to the game being refused classification, before the censored version of the game was released. The censored version had the gore (except for the Gore cheat) and the ability to pick up prostitutes immediately removed.
GTA Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has been, like GTA III, criticised for its violence and labeled sexually explicit. The Australian version of the game was also censored, with the ability to pick-up prostitutes disabled. In November 2003 Cuban and Haitian groups in Florida accused the game of inviting people to harm immigrants from the two nations.[4] Rockstar Games responded by removing several lines of dialogue from the game.[5] This seems to have largely satisfied the groups who raised the complaints, although the case was then referred to a state court, downgraded from the initial decision to refer the case to a federal court.[6] In 2004, a new version of the game was released, removing and changing those lines of dialogue.[5]
GTA San Andreas
- Main Article: Hot Coffee Mod
In mid-June 2005, a software patch for the game dubbed the "Hot Coffee Mod" was released by Patrick Wildenborg (under the Internet alias "PatrickW"), a 38-year old modder from the Netherlands. The name "Hot Coffee" refers to the way the released game alludes to the unseen sex scenes. In the unmodified game, the player takes his girlfriend to her front door and she asks him if he would like to come in for "some coffee". He agrees, and the camera stays outside, swaying back and forth a bit, while moaning sounds are heard. After installing the patch, users can enter the main character's girlfriends' houses and engage in a crudely rendered, fully clothed sexual intercourse mini-game. An "Action Replay Power Save", released by console 'hacker' Jay "FNG", allowed the Hot Coffee Mod to take place on the Xbox and PlayStation 2 versions of the game.
On July 20, 2005, production of GTA San Andreas was suspended and the game received a revised ESRB Rating of Adults Only. Rockstar Games. Many retailers pulled the game off their shelves in compliance with their own store regulations that kept them from selling AO games. Rockstar North released a "Cold Coffee" patch[7] for the PC version and re-released GTA San Andreas with an M rating. The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions have also been re-released in a "GTA Trilogy Pack"[8] for Xbox and PlayStation 2, as well as a Special Edition for PlayStation 2 that includes the documentary film Sunday Driver.
On 8 November 2007 Take-Two announced a proposed settlement to the class action litigation that had been brought against them following the Hot Coffee controversy. Under the proposed settlement, consumers would be able to swap their AO-rated copies of the game for M-rated versions and may also qualify for a $35 cash payment upon signing a sworn statement.[9] A report in The New York Times on 25 June 2008 revealed that a total of 2,676 claims for the compensation package had been filed.[10]
Jack Thompson
In 2007, Jack Thompson stated he would take various measures to prevent the sale of the game by Rockstar to minors.[11] On 14 March 2007, Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, filed a lawsuit[12] against Thompson in Florida in an attempt to pre-emptively block him from trying to declare its games a public nuisance. It would be a crime to sell games declared to be a public nuisance, effectively banning such games, which they believe would be a violation of First Amendment rights.[13] Thompson responded by filing a countersuit,[14] accusing Take-Two of violating federal RICO statutes (the charge was later dropped), committing perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiring against him with third parties to deprive him of his civil rights.[15][16]
Both parties reached a settlement on 20 April 2007,[17] and agreed to drop their respective lawsuits. Under the terms of the settlement Thompson is barred from suing to block the sale or distribution of any future games published by Take-Two or any of its subsidiaries. He will be restricted to communicating through Take-Two's attorneys on any future matters. Thompson will still be able to maintain his outspoken stance against the publisher's titles, as well as still being allowed to act as counsel in lawsuits brought against Take-Two by other parties. For their part, Take-Two agreed to drop its contempt of court lawsuit against Thompson regarding alleged improper conduct during the Bully court hearings in Florida,[18][19] which, if found to be in contempt, could have resulted in Thompson seeing jail time.[20][21][22]
Thompson filed a document with a federal court in Florida on 18 September 2007,[23] that claims that the assassination target of a mission in GTA IV is a lawyer character based upon himself. When the main protagonist enters his office and pulls a gun on him, the lawyer yells "Guns don't kill people! Video games do!" Thompson has threatened that unless the similarities to himself are removed from the game he will "take necessary and proper means to stop release of the game".[24] Despite this, both the mission and the character still remain in the game.
On 25 April 2008, it was reported in Metro that Jack Thompson had written a letter to the mother of Strauss Zelnick, Director of Take-Two Interactive. In the letter, which strongly criticised the game, Zelnick, and his mother, Thompson called Grand Theft Auto a "murder simulator". He went on to say that "The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers' children". Thompson then questions Strauss Zelnick's upbringing and says that his mother should be ashamed of herself, and that she "...spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, to shame." He finishes by saying "Happy Mothers' Day, Mrs Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers' boys. I'm sure you're very proud." Neither Take-Two interactive nor Rockstar Games have made any comment regarding the matter.[25] Thompson subsequently claimed he sent the letter to Zelnick's lawyer, not his mother, and that the letter was formulated as a parody intended to induce feelings of "shame" in Zelnick.[26]
Glenn Beck
On his program, Glenn Beck, a conservative American talk-radio host, used GTA IV as an example to make wider claims about the use of violent video games by the US military, repeating claims made by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman that the US military uses first person shooting games to de-sensitise soldiers to killing.[27]
In the second segment of the show, Beck spoke to Jack Thompson and Gavin McKiernan, national grassroots director for the Parents Television Council. Thompson called the game "a murder simulator." and went on to make unsubstantiated claims about actions that the player could perform in the game. McKiernan added "This is really an adult product we're talking about" and went on to claim that research into media violence had shown the potential effect violent media could have on children. He went on to claim that there was a definite difference between violence in movies and violence in video games.
Thompson said the game should be rated Adults Only, saying "the sex in the game was taken out so it could even be sold to adults in Australia." Thompson claimed that the ESRB rating for the game was "phoney", to apease large stores that refuse to sell adult rated games.[28]
New York City officials
After the release of the first trailer for the game, New York City officials were appalled with the choice of their city as the inspiration for the setting of GTA IV, and said that a game like GTA does not represent the city's crime levels accurately.[29] A spokesperson for Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "The mayor does not support any video game where you earn points for injuring or killing police officers," although no points are awarded for killing or injuring police officers in the game.[30] As a response, Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Association, accused New York City officials of double standards, for criticising video games but not other forms of entertainment, such as books, films and television shows, which use New York City as the setting.[31]
Despite confirmation from Rockstar in February 2008 that the Australian version of GTA IV would not be edited in any way,[32] Rockstar later told Sydney Morning Herald journalist Jason Hill that the Australian version would be edited.[33] GTA IV was awarded an MA15+ rating on 11 December 2007. In a post on his blog, Jason Hill stated that a Rockstar spokesperson confirmed to The Sydney Morning Herald's video game section, Screenplay, that the company had produced a special version of GTA IV to comply with the Australian classification system. The spokesperson would not comment on what has been cut from the game.[33]
New Zealand
It was announced on 15 April 2008, and subsequently reported across the Internet, that the New Zealand release would be receiving the edited Australian version[34] with Take-Two Interactive Support Team citing "time scales and logistical reasons" as the reason[35]. Later, on 5 May 2008, it was confirmed the original version of the game had been submitted to the OFLC[36]. On 21 May 2008, the original and uncut game was now officially classified by the New Zealand OFLC thus legal to sell in the country.[37]
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
The organisation Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) sharply criticized an in-game option that allows players to drive while intoxicated and called for a stricter rating on the game that would effectively ban its sale in the United States. "Drunk driving is not a game and it is not a joke," MADD said. "Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime, and it is also 100 percent preventable." MADD is asking the ESRB to bump GTA IV's rating up to AO for Adults Only from M for Mature and calling for Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games to consider stopping distribution out of a sense of social responsibility, or out of respect for those who've been hurt or killed by drunk drivers. The ESRB describes that the game includes "Use of drugs and Alcohol"[38] Rockstar issued a statement to the Associated Press. "We have a great deal of respect for MADD's mission, but we believe the mature audience for GTA IV is more than sophisticated enough to understand the game's content." When attempting to enter a car while drunk in the game, the main character, Niko Bellic, will remark that he shouldn't drive drunk, and the player is encouraged to call a taxi instead. In addition to being extremely difficult to drive a car while intoxicated, in-game police will pursue the player if they are seen driving while intoxicated.
Chicago Transit Authority lawsuit
Take-Two has filed a lawsuit in response to the Chicago Transit Authority pulling ads promoting GTA IV from their property, violating a contract for the ads to go until June 2008.[39] A CTA representative said that the ads were removed due to complaints in 2004 surrounding the ad campaign for GTA San Andreas.[40] Miami-Dade Transit might also be facing a similar lawsuit due to similar circumstances.
Little Lacy Surprise Pageant
On 16 June 2008 British newspaper The Sun reported the presence of an in-game internet resource called "Little Lacy Surprise Pageant" available on the in-game internet.[41] The fake site – www.littlelacysurprisepageant.com – displays a message from virtual authorities saying it has been closed down. It warns that anyone caught looking at it will be investigated and features the warning: "We see it all, we know it all," which is similar to the quote "Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous." found at Grokster.com. The player's Wanted level immediately jumps to 5 stars, resulting in both police and FIB (Federal Investigation Bureau) involvement in their arrest. The domain name address is just one of dozens of fake sites in GTA IV. Typing it into a real internet browser redirects users to the official website for the game. No missions in the game allow players to act out the role of a paedophile, and neither Rockstar Games nor Take-Two Interactive have issued a statement regarding the inclusion of this content in the title.
The Lost and Damned
The game was condemned by parents group Common Sense Media who issued a public warning against the expansion pack due to a full-frontal nudity scene during one of the cut scenes of the mission Politics. They claimed the game was "more controversial than its predecessors" because it featured "full frontal male nudity".[42]
Links to Crime
The Grand Theft Auto series has been linked to numerous crimes, in particular a number of murders. However, there has yet to be a case successfully linked to the series.
William and Josh Buckner
On June 25, 2003, Aaron Hamel, 45, and Kimberly Bede, 19, were murdered by William and Josh Buckner, who claimed their actions were inspired by GTA III. On October 20, 2003 the families of Hamel and Bede filed a US$246 million lawsuit against publishers Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, retailer Wal-Mart and PlayStation 2 manufacturer Sony Computer Entertainment America.[43][44] Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, filed for dismissal of the lawsuit, stating in U.S. District Court on October 29, 2003 that the "ideas and concepts as well as the 'purported psychological effects' on the Buckners are protected by the First Amendment's free-speech clause." The lawyer of the victims, Jack Thompson, denied that and is attempting to move the lawsuit into a state court and under Tennessee's consumer protection act.[45]
Devin Moore
On June 7, 2003, seventeen year old Devin Moore (born Devin Darnell Thompson on May 15, 1985) killed police officers Arnold Strickland and James Crump, and dispatcher Leslie Mealer. Moore had been brought to a Fayette police station for questioning in regards to a stolen vehicle. Moore grabbed the pistol of one of the officers and killed him, before killing a second police officer and a dispatcher before fleeing in a police car.[46][47] He was arrested several hours later in Mississippi. According to the Associated Press, after his recapture he said, "Life is a video game. Everybody's got to die sometime." Once in custody, Moore quickly confessed. He told detectives that he shot the men because he didn't want to go to jail.[48] Moore faced trial in 2005 and pleaded not guilty.[49] The trial judge barred the defense from introducing evidence to the jury that Grand Theft Auto incited Moore's shooting spree. Moore's attorney, Jim Standridge, contended that Moore was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at the time of the crimes. Standridge argued that Moore had been emotionally and physically abused by his father as a child.[50] In August 2005, Moore was convicted as charged and on October 9, 2005 he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Jim Standridge appealed the case.
Cody Posey
On July 5, 2004, Cody Posey (born on October 9, 1989 in New Mexico) killed his father, Delbert Paul Posey, his stepmother, Tyrone Schmid, and stepsister, Marelia Schmid. He first killed his stepmother, before killing his father and stepsister. Cody dragged the bodies out of the house and loaded them in the bucket of a John-Deere backhoe. Cody admitted he attempted to bury them in a nearby plot of land, but after not being able to break the hard ground, opted to bury them in a shallow grave in a manure pile. After the murders, Cody changed clothes and drove his father's truck to the store for a can of Sprite. He then drove to a friend's house staying there until his arrest. After his arrest, Cody Posey confessed to the murders and the bodies were recovered. The trial began on January 16, 2006. Cody's defense attorney, Gary Mitchell, never denied that Cody murdered the family - instead he suggested the murder happened as a result of years of abuse and dissociation. On February 7, 2006, Posey was convicted of first degree murder in the death of his stepsister, second degree murder in the death of his stepmother, and voluntary manslaughter in the death of his father.
On February 23, 2006, Cody was sentenced by Judge Counts as a juvenile and is to remain in the custody of juvenile authorities until he reaches the age of 21. On September 25, 2006, Cody was named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by attorney Jack Thompson on behalf of the surviving Posey relatives. Also named were Grand Theft Auto creator Rockstar Games, publisher Take-Two Interactive and PlayStation 2 manufacturer Sony. The lawsuit alleged Posey was trained by the video game GTA Vice City to be more aggressive, and a more effective killer.[51] On December 19, 2007, Jack Thompson's lawsuit against Sony and Take-Two was thrown out by New Mexico judge. The judge dismissed Jack Thompson's wrongful death suit since neither Sony or Take-Two have offices in New Mexico.
Ryan Chinnery
Ryan Chinnery, aged nineteen upon his arrest in 2008, was a criminal based in the United Kingdom convicted on November 7, 2008 on charges of attempted rape and grievous bodily harm. He was sentenced to eight years, with a minimum of four years recommended.[52] He had began his crimes in 2007, when aged seventeen.[53] The Grand Theft Auto series of games was said to have influenced his actions, with Judge Philip Statman stating that the video games "cannot have helped him in all the circumstances of this case".[54]
New York Criminals
In June 2008, a gang in New York were involved in a two-hour crime spree, involving robbery, brutality, attemped carjackings, muggings, several breakings and assault (knocking one mans teeth out) in Long Island. The group involved Brandon Cruz (15), Samuel Philip (16), Gurnoor Singh (14) and Jaspreet Singh (17), no relation. The group were also joined by Stephen Attard (18) and Dylan Laird (17). The crimes were said to have been influenced by Grand Theft Auto IV.[55]
Thailand Teenager
In 2008 an eighteen year old was arrested in Thailand was arrested for stabbing a taxi driver to death, He confessed to stealing the taxi and killing the driver after he fought back. The teenager said he was trying to copy a scene in Grand Theft Auto IV. The incident led to the game being banned and the teenager currently faces the death penalty if convicted.[56] As a result of this incident, the game was subsequently banned in Thailand.[57]
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awww, bless her. It would be lovely to see a photo of her, I've pm'd you
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- Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, Till the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the Law until all is fulfilled [G4137]. Therefore whoever shall relax one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
(Matthew 5:17-20 MKJV)
Read Matthew 5:17-20 carefully. Note that the word "fulfill" is misunderstood. It is the simple verb for "fill." Messiah came to "fill up" the law, not abolish it. Too many people make the word "fulfill" mean the same thing as abolish (clearly going against the intention of Yeshua's saying). Yeshua then goes on to show us what his law is in the rest of the Sermon on the Mount. It is not just to avoid adultery, but lusting. Not just murder, but hatred. Messiah's law is the Law of Moses interpreted in its fullest sense, spirit and letter, so that we imitate God by avoiding all evil.
Just recently, I read an article in the Christian Post by an author I generally always agree with, Mr. John Piper. The article was titled "Are Christians Under the 10 Commandments?" Quite frankly, I was in disbelief at what I had just read.
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- John Piper: Are Christians under the 10 Commandments?
- And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
(Matthew 22:35-40 ESV)
Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach) summed up all the Ten Commandments in two commandments. He taught us that if we love God (YHWH) as we should, we will always keep commandments one through four, and that If we love our neighbor as we should, we will always keep commandments five through ten.
- And God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. "You shall have no other gods before me. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. "You shall not murder. "You shall not commit adultery. "You shall not steal. "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
(Exodus 20:1-17 ESV)
So which commandments are invalid or obsolete? Honestly, I don't see one commandment that I try not to keep every day of my life. Of course, I am human and as I result I do sin. However, I ask God to forgive those sins and He promised that he would.
- Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
(Micah 7:18-20 ESV)
- So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us
(Hebrews 6:17-18 ESV)
Grace means that we are no longer under the jurisdiction of the law (which is death). It is not a license to sin. The law is our definition of sin and an example of God's Holiness Code, it defines how God wants us (expects us) to live our lives.
- For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23 ESV)
Tradition holds that the commandments written on the stone tablets were burned all the way through the stones. In this way (written on stone and on both sides), nothing could be added and nothing could be removed from the Word of God.
- You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.
(Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV)
- "Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.
(Deuteronomy 12:32 ESV)
- Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
(Proverbs 30:5-6 ESV)
- I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
(Revelation 22:18-19 ESV)
If one reads and studies the B'rit Chadashah completely, they will notice that Yeshua and the disciples taught the Ten Commandments throughout the B'rit Chadashah. Not only did they teach them, but they also lived by them to the best of their abilities.
When you are ready as a Christian to accept and admit that the Law was never abolished, you will find it very useful to study the Tanakh (Old Testament). The first five bools of the Tanakh are known as the Torah and include an additional 603 laws for believers (some apply only to women and some apply only to priests). It is interesting that approximately 33% of the prophecies in the Tanakh have not been fulfilled yet, so how can the Tanakh be old? Likewise, approximately 85% of the B'rit Chadashah (New Testament) is quoted from the Tanakh, so how can it be new?


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Educators face unique challenges teaching children with Williams syndrome, but with knowledge of the learning styles of students with WS, your students can experience success in the classroom. For a one page fact sheet on the educational profile for sudents with Williams syndrome, click here.
Connecting the WS cognitive profile to educational strategies
With school age children we see:
Sociable nature, expressive vocabulary, long term memory for information, short term and long term auditory memory, hyperacusis (both positives and negatives - helps with phonics, hurts when child becomes excessively worried about noises).
Areas of Concern
Attending difficulties (often distractible & impulsive but not necessarily hyperactive), visual-spatial & visual-motor integration difficulties, visual memory deficits, difficulty with abstract concepts and abstract reasoning, perseveration on "favorite" topics.
Children with Williams syndrome have more difficulty processing nonverbal information than verbal information. When administered the WISC-III (or the earlier edition WISC-R) they score significantly lower on the nonverbal (performance) subtests than the verbal subtests.
The scatter of scores across all of the WISC subtests is quite varied, which tends to negate the predictive value of any sort of an average IQ score. Hence the WSA does not recommend the use of the WISC as an indicator of IQ. It does, however, show the discrepancy between nonverbal ability and verbal ability in the WS cognitive profile.
There is a generic field of study known as nonverbal learning disorders. Within that arena, educators and clinical psychologists see many different subtypes, which present overlapping characteristics. There is general agreement that in order to have a nonverbal learning disorder, there should be a significant discrepancy between verbal and performance subtests on the WISC.
Children with WS share several key characteristics with children who have been diagnosed as having a nonverbal learning disorder. They both exhibit spatial relationship difficulties resulting, in the classroom, in handwriting problems. They share difficulty with math, which also has spatial roots, as well as being associated with the abstract reasoning deficit. They do best at reading in general, which is linked to their verbal strengths. They do better at the lower level reading sub-skills such as word identification and phonics than they do at comprehension, which requires more abstract reasoning and, in general, the ability to go from parts to a whole. Comprehension also requires the reader to be able to understand implicit semantic relationships among words and be able to make inferences.
An area of difference appears to be in personalities. WS children, as we well know, are very sociable and outgoing. Children with nonverbal learning disorders tend to be shy and withdrawn, although they too are reported to be very verbal and friendly as very young children. Both, however, have some difficulty making and sustaining friendships. The common factor seems to be that both have difficulty reading nonverbal cues, and therefore are often inappropriate in their social interactions.
Nonverbal function, in a cognitive sense, involves visual processing and the harder to describe idea of perception. The affected individual does not form visual images easily and does not revisualize well (i.e. from memory). He or she also perceives the world differently than someone whose perceptual ability is seen to be intact. In a way, perception is the more spatial aspect of cognition, e.g. going from parts to whole, understanding cause and effect, etc. So a child with a deficit in this area would tend to focus on the details (and even perseverate on them) but fail to grasp the complete picture.
Direct instruction can be helpful. As the name implies, it involves directly teaching each aspect of a skill. It also engages the student orally, to ensure that they become an active part of the process. Direct instruction programs are very sequential in nature, progressing in a building block way until the target skills are acquired and mastered.
The most common element of all of the remedial interventions described in the literature on nonverbal learning disorders is the use of verbal mediation and verbal self-direction, both for analyzing information and for organizing to perform a task. This means the child must be taught, through direct instruction, how to talk himself/herself through various steps, to successful completion of the process or task.
This concept can be used to improve verbal reasoning, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and social skills. Because writing involves cognitively difficult processes requiring idea development, organization, and the ability to go from parts to a whole, it lends itself well to a verbal mediation approach. Handwriting can also be taught this way to young children.
Following are some specific strategies which have been recommended for teaching children with nonverbal learning disorders. Because individuals with Williams syndrome exhibit characteristic overlap, these approaches can be considered in the IEP planning process:
Reading Comprehension:
- Ensure that decoding skills have been mastered first (the student must be able to read words accurately before he/she can understand meaning). Typically a phonics based reading curriculum is most effective.
- Teach reading comprehension skills directly, e.g. making inferences, deductions, understanding cause and effect, etc.
- Develop self-questioning techniques to monitor comprehension.
- Teach students that they must interact with the text.
- Encourage verbalization of strategies to enable students to internalize comprehension strategies (who, what, why, where, when, etc.).
- Teach the organization and structure of paragraphs.
- Teach signal words indicating transitions.
Vocabulary Development:
- Make concrete associations for unknown words whenever possible.
- Be "child centered", i.e. use words they encounter in their own reading, define words they want to know, work from known associations and understandings.
- Encourage students to verbalize and paraphrase their understandings.
- Work toward a depth in understanding - don't let them slide by with surface understandings.
- Connect words into meaningful semantic categories.
- Teach multiple meanings.
- Build semantic maps or webs.
- Highlight morphological rules and patterns, directly teach prefixes, roots, suffixes.
- Provide brief daily practice to improve handwriting rate and legibility.
- Teach student to use verbal self-directions to guide those practices.
- Address posture, position of hand and paper, grasp of pencil, directions for forming individual letters.
- Teach keyboarding and word processing skills to the student at a young age.
- Focus on only one aspect of writing at a time (e.g. pre-writing, writing, editing).
- Hold expectations for rate and volume of written products based on the student's demonstrated abilities.
- Teach transitional words.
- Teach organizational patterns for writing paragraphs, then for longer works such as essays.
- Provide a purpose and structure for writing
By following these principals, we are utilizing the student's verbal strengths to remediate difficulty they have processing nonverbal information. Ultimately, the goal is to have the student internalize the process and become totally self-directed in his/her evaluation and self-correction if so required.


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5 Reasons To Drink More Tea
While getting, or staying fit, it might seem strange, but there is one aspect of calories that people tend to completely forget. A sneaky perpetrator to an otherwise healthy diet is "liquid calories".If you're eating healthy all day, but slugging a juice or soda with every meal, you can cost yourself an extra 500-800 empty calories that are usually laden with artificial sugars and sweeteners.
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Files / Releases / jCore Client
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:37:07 BST by pijulius
jCore Client is a stripped version of the core system. It has no libraries as uses the ones from jCore Server but is able to extend these and use it's own modules. Learn more.
Updated (0.9): Small template changes.
Upgrade from 0.8 to 0.9
Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:53:14 BST by pijulius
To upgrade run upgrade-from-0.8-to-0.9.sql using phpMyAdmin on your DB and then overwrite your local files with the new ones from upgrade-from-0.8-to-0.9.tar.gz
NOTE: always backup your data/files before upgrading.